Morton Stillman

August 4th, 2021

Dear Sheila, 2021-08-04

First, I would like to express my sincere condolences on the passing of Mort.
We have known each other for many years and have valued each other very much. Still in good memory, my short visit to you in Chicago many, many years ago.

Unfortunately, I only found out about it now, hence my late mail, I am very sad to hear such news.
I was intend to call Mort for long time already because of returning so many of my “daily news”.
I was intend to send him the attached picture made during a Pet show in Texas, only good 45 years ago. But no way to find your phone-number again. Somehow got lost, when changing computer system etc.
Stay healthy and save and all the very best to you.

Kind regards,

Gunther

Picture from APPMA-show, DALLAS, TEXAS 1986

~Gunther Wenzek
~longtime friend from Germany, Essen, Germany

April 22nd, 2020

Ever since I can remember, cousin Mort has been a wonderful, reassuring presence in my life, even though my family moved to California from Skokie when I was still in high school and for more than fifty years we had too seldom been in personal contact.
I treasure our breakfast together, with Don, on one of my pilgrimages to Chicago 3 or so years ago, when I last saw him and we 3 spoke for hours.
Being 12 years younger than him and Don, I heard from my earliest days from my mother how she idolized them, whom she met when they were 8 years old or so, and as a bride, she lived with Aunt Ida and family for a year or 2 at the height of the Depression, before she and my father could afford to strike out on there own. My father too loved him dearly, and I was always impressed by the mutual respect, and love, they held for one another.
As I grew up, I idolized Mort as well. I remember him in his Navy whites, coming to see me play in Little League, of being delighted to hear him kibitz on my family’s frequent visits to Aunt Ida’s. His smile lit up her kitchen, where we usually gathered (and, rarely the living room, with the furniture covered in transparent plastic covers), and he was always funny, always paid sincere attention to his little cousin.
Over the years, I could always appreciate what Mensch really meant, because I always had Mort…and Don…to look up to.
My sincere condolences to Sheila and family who have been blessed to have shared their lives with him.

~Howard Clyman
~1st cousin, Brooklyn, NY

April 21st, 2020

Uncle Mort was such a kind and caring man. He always made me feel important, like he really cared about my stories and what was happing in my life (often dull and shallow). He was loved and will be missed by many ❤️

~Julie Michaels Allen
~Niece, Scottsdale, AZ